Before I was a cop, I dated a woman who was a 13 year veteran for the city. She seriously wondered why I would need to own a flashlight. To her, apparently, a flashlight is a tool that only cops should have. Later when I was training with my FTO, I quickly learned that is not such a strange sentiment among police.
Dear flada,
"She seriously wondered why I would need to own a flashlight."
LOL!
That reminds me of something that happened to me about 20 years ago.
I was driving home from the dentist, and stopped at a 7-11 to get a soda. When I got back to my car, and got comfortably seated, out jumped about half a dozen plainclothes police officers, guns drawn.
During their search of my car, they discovered my toolkit (I've worked with microcomputers for over 20 years), and asked what it was. I said, "It's a toolkit."
"Why do you have tools?"
"Well, as I explained, I work for a computer network company, and I often take computers apart and put them back together."
"What's this?" the officer asked, pointing out one of the little gadgets in my kit.
"A chip puller," I answered.
"What does it do?" he insisted.
"It pulls chips."
Considering that I was spread-eagled at the time, and they hadn't yet stopped pointing their weapons at me, it was likely a bit more flippant of an answer than was prudent. LOL!
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